Dear Parent,
To protect the health and safety of all our pupils and staff when they return in September, we are asking everyone to abide by the government rules on travelling abroad during the summer holiday period.
- Coronavirus regulations mean that you must self-isolate for 14 days if you arrive in the UK from a country not on the list below.
- You will need to self-isolate if you visited or made a transit stop in a country that is not on the list in the 14 days before you arrive in England.
This applies to all travel to England, by train, ferry, coach, air or any other route.
Transit stops
A transit stop is a stop where passengers can get on or off. It can apply to coaches, ferries, trains or flights. Your ticket should show if a stop is a transit stop.
If your journey involves a transit stop in a country not on the list, you will need to self-isolate when you arrive in England if:
- new passengers get on
- you or other passengers get off the transport you are on and mix with other people, then get on again
So if your child has been abroad to a country not included in the list over the page during the summer holidays and returned to England since 18th August 2020 you must not send them back to school until they have completed a 14 day isolation period.
When school starts on September 1st 2020 please call the school to report that your child is self-isolating for 14 days following travel abroad. Let the school know the date of return to the country, which country you travelled to and if a transit stop was made and the anticipated return date to school if your child remains healthy.
Thank you for your cooperation and support at this difficult time.
Yours sincerely
Headteacher.
Countries and territories with no self-isolation on arrival in England
Unless you have visited or made a transit stop in any other country or territory in the preceding 14 days, you do not need to self–isolate when you arrive in England from the following countries and territories:
| Akrotiri and Dhekelia | Iceland |
| Andorra | Ireland |
| Anguilla | the Isle of Man |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Italy |
| Aruba | Jamaica |
| Australia | Japan |
| Austria | Liechtenstein |
| The Bahamas | Lithuania |
| Barbados | Luxembourg |
| Belgium | Macao (Macau) |
| Bermuda | Malta |
| Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba | Mauritius |
| British Antarctic Territory | Monaco |
| British Indian Ocean Territory | Montserrat |
| British Virgin Islands | the Netherlands |
| Cayman Islands | New Caledonia |
| the Channel Islands | New Zealand |
| Croatia | Norway |
| Curaçao | Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands |
| Cyprus | Poland |
| Czech Republic | Reunion |
| Denmark | San Marino |
| Dominica | Seychelles |
| Falkland Islands | South Korea |
| Faroe Islands | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands |
| Fiji | Spain |
| Finland | St Barthélemy |
| France | St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha |
| French Polynesia | St Kitts and Nevis |
| Gibraltar | St Lucia |
| Germany | St Pierre and Miquelon |
| Greece | Switzerland |
| Greenland | Taiwan |
| Grenada | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Guadeloupe | Turkey |
| Hong Kong | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| Hungary | Vatican City State |
| Vietnam |
Please keep checking on https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-travel-corridors for updates to the list.